Nowhere To Hyde — What Prop 1 Ads & Snake Oil Have In Common (10/24/24, video 12:54 includes transcript)
Bryan Hyde explains that massive amounts of out-of-state money are buying dubious ads promoting Proposition 1 (Top-Four Jungle Primaries + Ranked Choice Voting, misleadingly labeled “Idaho Open Primaries Act”). The goal: turn red (conservative) Idaho purple then blue (leftist).
Idaho’s election system isn’t the only one under attack in 2024 by leftists and Marxists seeking to implement Ranked Choice Voting (RCV). Related outside groups also are trying to implement Ranked Choice Voting in several other Western states including Colorado, Missouri, Nevada, and Oregon. (Alaska is trying to repeal their hated RCV system.)
Per Ballotpedia:
As of October 25, 2024, 11 statewide ballot measures related to electoral system changes, including ranked-choice voting and top primary elections, were certified in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and South Dakota.
ED NOTE
DO NOT FALL FOR THE LIES of the leftist out-of-state funders of Proposition 1. It ain’t broke now. So let’s not fix it — especially under the Prop 1 scheme — or we will end up breaking everything and destroy all the good that Idaho represents for the vast majority of its citizens! [OK, yes, we admit our system is broken now thanks to cheating, but it will be even more broken and difficult to audit with RCV.]
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👀 Let's look at what might happen if Prop 1 passes...
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PRIMARY: You won’t get open primaries: you will get a mosh pit of candidates who won’t tell you what they stand for. You certainly won't know based on their party affiliation because they can claim whatever party (or no party) affiliation they want.
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GENERAL: Once the top four candidates emerge from the primary mosh pit, you’ll have to rank all of them from 1 to 4 — even ones you would never want in office. In the general election's RCV scheme, complex and convoluted COMPUTER algorithms determine a “winner.” Some votes could be eliminated due to "ballot exhaustion" and others could count more than once through redistribution to other candidates. The so-called winner under RCV could have been a “loser” with the traditional system we've had for ages.
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ALASKA EXAMPLE: In the mostly red (conservative) state of Alaska in 2022, RCV sent Democrat Mary Peltola to the US House of Representatives.
→ In the first round, Peltola received 48.6% of first-choice votes, Palin 25.8%, and Begich 23.6%. The fourth-place finisher Bye's votes were redistributed by computer among those voters' second choices, giving Peltola 49.2% of the vote. Begich was eliminated next. Peltola beat Palin in the third and final computer-calculated round.
→ Bottom line: There was NO Peltola / Palin runoff vote by the people; instead, computers performed a runoff based on the initial votes, redistributed in such a convoluted way that no mere human could do the counting job.
→ It's no wonder, Alaska's ballot features a repeal of RCV.🚫 DEFEAT PROPOSITION 1 👎 VOTE NO!
Proposition 1: Top-Four/Jungle Primaries + Ranked Choice Voting = Idaho Elections Disaster
Related:
Ranked Choice Voting measures on the ballot (Ballotpedia): ballotpedia.org/Ranked-…
Additional information on electoral system ballot measures (Ballotpedia): ballotpedia.org/Alaska_…
United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, 2022: ballotpedia.org/United_…
Jungle Primaries & Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) Ballot Initiative: A Race to the Bottom: eolson47.substack.com/p…
Nov. 5, 2024 Voting Recommendations for Idaho (and beyond):
